CHILDREN AND THE LAW
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Dependency Petitions
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Legal Representation
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For Minor
............Appointment of DA/Cnty Counsel/Agency
10 Cards On This Topic:
DA may not represent M in dependency, then prosecute in 602 action.
Whether to appoint county counsel to represent County and M in same case, rather than independent counsel for M, is within dependency court’s discretion.
Appointment of county counsel to represent minor and Dept. of Social Services is error without showing of no conflict of interest.
Juvenile court must appoint independent counsel for minor, absent showing that minor’s interest would be represented by welfare agency’s counsel.
Appointment of DA to represent child in former Civil Code section 232 proceedings should be avoided; exceptions; findings required to appoint DA.
Appointment of DA to represent two minors did not deprive them of right to independent counsel.
No conflict of interest for DA to represent M and also prosecute parents.
No conflict of interest in public, nonprofit corporation providing legal services to indigent parties in dependency court.
Error to recuse DA representing minor in dependency and People in F’s murder trial: No evidence prosecutorial function had been exercised for reasons extraneous to DA’s official duty.
DA’s 300 records confidential.